DBMS > Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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